1. In that moment of greatest despair, we find the antidote for all our fears. We know we are beloved of God and there is salvation in Christ’s atoning death.
  2. Hidden beneath the sinner is a glorious saint. Jesus has declared it to be so in your baptism.
  3. A theologian is a passive receiver of God’s active revelation about Jesus Christ, his words, works, and ways.
  4. You are a child of God. You’re blameless, holy, perfect, and righteous. Don’t feel that way? Too bad. God is greater than your heart.
  5. God’s goodness spoke a promise of peace and mercy to the bewildered, a promise that rings out to this day.
  6. God excludes our boasting out of his abundant mercy.
  7. “God in general” is of little use to all of us suffering the ravages of sin, the fear of death, and satanic prosecution.
  8. The essence of sin is man substituting himself for God, while the essence of salvation is God substituting himself for man.
  9. Good Friday encompasses the silence of God, even as it focuses on our salvation in the cross of Christ.
  10. The church does well to remind the world that God is unmasked, indeed, that God has unmasked himself in the person of Jesus.
  11. The God whom I met without a preacher is neither revealing nor hiding—but now, with a preacher, he has become my hiding place!
  12. Christmas is, therefore, the beginning of Christ’s earthly ministry, even while he awaits a number of years to gather his disciples and inaugurate his preaching of the kingdom.
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